Bernard Devlin wrote:
As an aside, I have for years wondered if it wasn't the anti-virus vendors themselves who pay certain shady characters to come up with these viruses. Food for thought. <<< This thought has occurred to me too.
Tempting as such a thought may be, consider that since most Win users smart enough to know they need anti-virus software have probably already done so, the more ripe opportunity would be to deploy viruses for OS X. But such viruses remain rare, even proportionate to market share.
The upside about Windows for makers of anti-virus tools is that they don't need to risk criminal penalties to make money; Microsoft's inherently brittle security architecture leaves plenty of opportunities for such companies to make money legally. ;)
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